We would like to thank everybody for their submissions to Stereohype's record-breaking 12th Annual Button Badge Design Competition.

Stats:949 (!) accepted entries by279 individual badge designers295 (!) disqualified / non-eligible designs20 judges / judging teams60 shortlisted designs featured at stereohype.com30 runners-up30 winning designs6 well-deserved winning sets of 46 well-deserved single badge winners198 (!) received at least 1 vote80 (!) were voted for as 1st choice winners9 were voted for as 1st choice winners at least twice5 were voted for as 1st choice winners three times or more35 were voted for by 3 or more judges75 (!) were voted for by 2 or more judges46 (!) were voted for by 1 judge each751 did get no vote

Congratulations also to all the runners-up who made the shortlist of 60! The 30 winning badges are now available to purchase. The others have not been produced by us but will stay online to give credit to everybody who scored enough points from our judges to make this shortlist.

A few words for runners-up, special mentions and participants:Please feel encouraged to submit new designs to our next competition. Runners-up – you scored a lot of points to have made it onto the shortlist and should be proud of yourself. Alice Tosey, Avalon Yangchen Hu, Barbara Puliga, Calum Ross, Chris (Liang) Chen, DueSenzaTre Studio, Elham Khaleghi, Forough Behvandi, Hanna Petersson, Melanie Acosta, N.V. – Nastya Vorotnikova, Patryk Krygowski, Tamara Ukleba and William Harroff. The same applies to special mentions Alyssa Williams, Cathy (Yao) Chen, Claire Webster, Deepika Das, Eun Sung (Angela) Kim, Libra (Xiaoxuan) Li, Olya Andrushchenko, Parinaz Valinezhad, Putri McMurray, Radovan, Reza Dalvand, Sang Eon Kim, Typechap, Wen Cao and Zahra Rahmani – but also all other particpants who submitted intriguing work. Almost 200 badge designs did after all get at least 1 vote—and only 30 could win... Congratulations to all – you stood out of the masses! Please give it another try next year with fresh new designs to grab our jury's attention.

A big THANK YOU goes once again to the nice people from the judging panel who helped us so much – in fact more than ever before – given the vast amount of entries we all had to consider!

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